Help please! Will my older drakes hurt my young ducks!?

[Mayfiel511]

We just put our new young ducks (8weeks) and drakes with the older ones and the older males are trying to mate the girls and one of the boys?! The boy they are trying to mate is a doesn't quack but has a boys low grumble, is it possible he's a girl? And can my older drakes hurt my young females? The 8 week olds are about the same size as the 1yr olds.
I have 2 drakes (1 Appleyard and 1 Pekin) and 3 mated ducks all over a year old. We lost some ducks to predators so we have added to the flock. 9 incubated offspring of their own (4female, 5males)plus 1 unrelated male. We have another 7 females and 1 Male in the brooder). Thanks inform advance for any advise

 

[EverythingDucks]

You can start by letting them see each other through a fence or dog kennel and eventually let them have supervised time together. If you see they get along you can then let them stay together but often times drakes will try to kill really young ducklings

 

[Miss Lydia]

Please don’t put 8 week duck with mature drakes yes they will hurt them.

 

[cheezenkwackers]

I was in the process of saying the same thing. You need to separate everyone immediately. Your babies need to be sexually mature which is usually four months. Also, your young drake is a drake. Hormone fueled drakes will mate anyone they can and will hurt and even kill the younger ones.

 

[Mayfiel511]

These are younger ones.

 

[Mayfiel511]

Done! Everyone is well separated but able to see one another. I thought since they were about the same size that it would be fine but clearly not! Thank you so much!

 

[Miss Lydia]

They are very pretty, and it can be misleading when we see our young ones almost the same size as our adults but they are still immature.